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Bluestocking, web 1.0. Cats belong inside, and "AI" is theft. Here for real people with real posts. I'm not competing with anyone-- I hope we all make it.
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last wk."John Rawls, in 'Justice as Fairness: A Restatement,' when he's defending liberal socialism as the proper regime, says welfare-state capitalism is not enough because it still allows extreme inequalities that should be impermissible from a liberal standpoint." www.liberalcurrents.com/is-liberal-s...
Front porch windowboxes and hanging plants with mellow windchime by @brambledragon.bsky.social #gardening
In 1976, a white man used an American flag to attack a young Black lawyer in downtown Boston. Fifty years later, Ted Landsmark describes the moment, which was captured in one of the most famous photos in American history.
Ted Landsmark was attacked with an American flag 50 years ago. What does the flag mean to him now?
In 1976, a white man attacked a young Black lawyer with an American flag in downtown Boston.
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Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” serves as a powerful reminder of our nation’s greatest contradiction—an exclusive democracy. As we mark America’s 250th we must remember: we cannot celebrate freedom while the U.S. denies it to millions.
Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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I love everything about this. I love the little dangling legs of the kitten as his cat daddy takes him off the teat. And the little lammies are just adorable. And then there is the look in the mama goat's eyes. #Perfection
“While the white "Christian Left" alone is unlikely to rescue American democracy, its leadership, organizational networks, physical spaces, and congregants are all valuable, established resources for those efforts” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-untapped...
The Untapped Potential of Organized Mainline American Protestantism
Around the country, Mainline Protestant churches are stepping up to help organizing the resistance to ICE's incursions into their communities.
liberalcurrents.com
haupt blackberries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1914
liveland raspberry apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1909
Sometimes he just sits in his tube and yodels sadly for someone to come play with him. #cats #blackcats
